With the Capitals coming off a 6-3 loss to the Florida Panthers, and then down 2-0 in the third period to the New Jersey Devils on a day when the Caps sat in 15th place in the Eastern Conference standings, 40-year-old Alex Ovechkin almost single-handedly woke up Capital One Arena.
First, Ovi found Connor McMichael wide open in front of the net to get the Caps their first goal of the game, and later in the period, he scored himself to tie the game, giving him his fifth goal of the season and 902nd of his career.